Google evilness again

They only recently made it clear that we won't be given a choice at some point.

"The new Google Groups has a fresh look and updated controls and will be replacing classic Groups soon"

I don't like it mostly because I can't see the groups list at the same time as the threads. Silly to use the entire screen for one pane. They also don't make all the same info available.

All the problems with the current page is technical with things not loading and having to refresh the entire page periodically.

No. But I access Google groups (and other Google Services) via my IEEE identity, and I have to log via the IEEE once a fortnight.

Every new iteration of GG works worse than the last one, but this one breaks lots of functionality in one shot. I don't know how gg manages to be so stupid.

NT

Google doesn't make any money from advertising on Google Groups. It looks like they are trying to kill it off.

No. It made a toke effort to persuade me to make my non-existent selfie of me available to others but that was about it. One click and I was in.

I only ever use that interface if I am travelling or TB has lost a Usenet posting because of my impatience. There seems to be a glitch if you select a new post whilst it is still downloading headers. The post that gets selected stays a null body under a live header forever.

no that's a link to this thread.

I discovered that link using an incognito session, I's possible they identified me by IP address I guess.

In my case I was treated as different people, although the 2 computers have the same ip address because of NAT.

cheers, Gerhard

no that's a link to this thread.

I discovered that link using an incognito session, It's possible they identified me by IP address I guess.

"Doctor, Doctor! It hurts when I go like this!"

"That's not my problem,and it helps me".

Goes straight to it for me. I only got nagged to let it show my non-existent portrait photo the first time I went there this morning.

Instead of screwing up the interface again & again they could just add banner ads. I can only conclude GG is in the hands of a moron.

NT

To be fair, I find the current GG to be much better than it was. For awhile it would disappear (stop updating) for days/ weeks at a time.

George H.

I don't know what that was for you, but it wasn't Google. I use it nearly every day and I've never seen it "stop updating". The code is sometimes flaky and you have to reload the page, but that is the worst issue I've ever seen with it.

Like some employee who still uses Usenet

And your browser fingerprint. Check out

There are also zombie cookies, which after you delete them get recreated from your browser fingerprint the next time you load a page that uses the same analytics vendor.

And of course, if you're logged into Google while browsing elsewhere, their analytics slurp everything.

Cheers

Phil "Google is not my friend" Hobbs

I have a theory, that any society based on greed must eventually be run by morons; but why are you bright people using GG? I dont know if, say, Gnus would run on Qubes, but worth a try. Still Usenet servers, News clients. Cheers

There's no NNTP client for Blackberry 10. I use Thunderbird on computers.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I went through a progression of using Thunderbird for usenet potentially for all email until it crapped out and I could not revive it. So I switched to Seamonkey until it eventually also crapped out with all four legs in the air (or is it six?).

That's when I found the true religion of Google Groups. Now the heathens are threatening that. We must take action and wrest control of GG to keep it pure and holy!

Or not.

I'm not. I gave up and switched servers. It was taking too long per message to read on GG, when I can just download all new messages at once.